PSA – Operation OX Statewide MCM Exercise
PSA-Operation OX Statewide MCM Exercise 1 (1)
PSA-Operation OX Statewide MCM Exercise-Spanish 1 (4)
Date: April 10, 2019
To: All Media
From: Teri Thalhofer RN, BSN, Director
North Central Public Health District
Subject: Join NCPHD for Operation OX – A Statewide MCM Exercise
North Central Public Health District (NCPHD) is participating in Oregon Health Authority’s
Statewide Medical Countermeasures (MCM) exercise, Operation OX 2019.
As part of our participation, we will be exercising an open Point of Dispensing (POD) on
May 1, 2019, at Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue, and we invite you to join us between 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m. for a drive-through POD simulation.
Exercising our ability to dispense medical countermeasures, through this exercise, will help
NCPHD improve our plan to provide medications or vaccinations, when needed.
Medical Countermeasures are the medications (including vaccines, antiviral drugs, or antibiotics)
needed to treat, protect or prophylax an identified population in accordance with public health
guidelines and/or recommendations.
PODs are locations organized by the local public health department, where
medication/vaccination will be given to people to prevent disease in response to a public health
threat. For example, you may remember being invited to a POD for H1N1 vaccine in 2009, or
Pertussis vaccine in 2015.
No medication/vaccination will be given at the exercise; instead the first 75 participants will
receive a FREE mini first-aid kit!
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2019, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue (MCF&R) 1400 W 8th Street
Directions: Coming from Cherry Heights Road, turn onto W 8
th Street, heading West toward
MCF&R. Participants will be directed by onsite officials through the drive-through POD
exercise. The first 75 participants will receive a mini free first-aid kit!
We encourage everyone to participate in an effort to help community members understand
and prepare for public health emergencies.
(For more information, please contact North Central Public Health District at (541) 506-2600 or visit us
on the web at www.ncphd.org or our Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/NorthCentralPublicHealth/.)
